April 1, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
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U-M Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Noon Lecture Series

Apr. 1 & 15. Talks by visiting scholars.

Apr. 1: “The Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain: Bulgarian Computers and the Society They Tried to Build.” University of Tennessee Balkan history professor Victor Petrov discusses how Bulgaria built a technology industry during the last years of the Cold War.

Apr. 15: “The Last Soviet Artist.” Russian artist and dissident Victoria Lomasko discusses her collection of graphic reportages created during trips across the former Soviet republics.

Noon–1:20 p.m., 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church. Free. (734) 764–0351.

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